SCO Gr. 9 Up
This horror story/ sexual abuse novel is a tough one to read. Alice used to have a real name -- Kyla -- and she used to live in a real home with loving parents. But when she was ten, she was kidnapped and brutalized by a man named Ray. Five years later, she numbly tells her story as she lives through the daily horror of her life. Ray tries to keep her young because he likes little girls. She doesn't dare leave or ask for help, because Ray has told her that he will kill her parents if she does; and indeed, that is what appears to have happened to the parents of Ray's previous victim. As Alice searches for her own successor, she knows her life will end soon. Her emptiness and despair, and the details of Ray's sexual and physical abuse make this a thoroughly unpleasant but magnetic read.
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